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The issue of Syrian refugees returning to their home country from Türkiye has become the second hot electoral topic after the economic crisis. The public discussion came to a point that recent polls indicate Ümit Özdağ’s Victory Party, the real promise of which is to send the Syrians to Syria immediately, gaining 3 percent of
Some 41 miners died in the coal mine explosion on October 14 in the Amasra District of Northern Türkiye, while six miners are fighting for their lives in the intensive care unit with serious injuries. Energy Minister Fatih Dönmez announced on October 16 that the mine will resume its production “after the search and rescue
The new draft bill that stipulates changes in the Press Law, Criminal Code and Internet law, which the journalists called the “censorship law” and the ruling party “the law of disinformation”, was accepted by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) votes on the night of 13 October, after highly
The US Senate dropped the amendment to the 2023 National Defense Authorisation Act (NDAA) restricting the sale of update kits for 40 advanced F-16 Viper fighter jets and 80 of the 245 F-16s to Turkey during the debate on the act on October 11. The restrictive amendment stipulated that Turkey guarantee not to use these
Moscow was the first to announce Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with President Tayyip Erdoğan in Astana on October 13. Then followed Ankara; Erdoğan was to co-chair the strategy cooperation talks between Turkey and Kazakhstan with the President of Kazakhstan Kasym Tokayev and to attend the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia on
The 8th sanctions package against Russia that will most likely be accepted at the European Union Leader’s Prague summit on October 6 includes certain provisions that would profoundly affect the Turkish economy. New measures stipulate a new listing of individuals and further restrictions on trade such as an import ban on Russian “steel products, wood
“All six parties are rivals, but the real rivalry is with the other side,” DEVA Party Leader Ali Babacan said on Oct. 3, at the press dinner in Ankara. The leader of one of the six parties that formed an alliance against President Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the
After a very turbulent few weeks, the six opposition parties that formed an alliance against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the upcoming elections started the second round of talks hosted by main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on October 2. Before the meeting, all the parties in the “Table of Six” alliance
Following the suicide bombing attack on a police station in the Southern province of Mersin on Sep. 26, imprisoned politician Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the Kurdish-issue-focused People’s Democracy Party (HDP), posted a series of messages on his Twitter account on the evening of 30 September. With these messages, Demirtaş was taking a stance
The outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) organized a bombed attack on a police station in the Southern Province of Mersin on September 26, prompting further questions as the investigation unveils. The terrorist attack was prevented by 48-year-old police officer Sedat Gezer, who was shot and murdered during the clashes as two militants attempted to enter